Genetic evidence for an essential oscillation of transmembrane-spanning segment 5 in the Escherichia coli ammonium channel AmtB

Genetics

Volumn 183, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 1341-1355

  Inwood, William B ^a   Hall, Jason A ^a   Kim, Kwang Seo ^a   Fong, Rebecca ^a,b   Kustu, Sydney ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMMONIA; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; MEMBRANE PROTEIN; MONOMER; MUTANT PROTEIN; PROTEIN AMTB; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL MEMBRANE; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CYTOPLASM; ESCHERICHIA COLI; MEMBRANE CHANNEL; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DEGRADATION; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN FUNCTION; WILD TYPE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ATP-DEPENDENT PROTEASES; CATION TRANSPORT PROTEINS; CELL MEMBRANE; ELECTROPHORESIS, POLYACRYLAMIDE GEL; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; ISOTOPE LABELING; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NUCLEOTIDYLTRANSFERASES; PII NITROGEN REGULATORY PROTEINS; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; SEQUENCE DELETION; SUPPRESSION, GENETIC;

ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 71549140222     PISSN: 00166731     EISSN: 00166731     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1534/genetics.109.109579     Document Type: Article

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